Acts 16:40 - Exposition

Departed ; i.e. from Philippi, according to the magistrates' request in Acts 16:39 . This is much clearer in the T.R. and A.V. than in the Revised Text and Version, because the same word, ἐξελθεῖν , is used in both places. The R.T. in Acts 16:39 — ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ destroys the reference, and rather suggests that they merely" went out "of Lydia's house, which they had "entered into." It appears from the first verse of Acts 17:1-34 . (" they had passed," etc.) that St. Luke stopped at Philippi, and probably made it his head-quarters till St. Paul's last journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem, some six or seven years later £ ( Acts 20:6 ). What became of Timothy we are not expressly told, only we find him at Beroea in Acts 17:14 and 1 Thessalonians 3:5 ; and at Corinth ( 1 Thessalonians 1:1 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:6 ). Probably he accompanied St. Paul, but is not named, being still only a subordinate person in the mission.